He nodded in agreement. “Promise.”
I nodded to Rob and he took them to the elevator to bring them downstairs. Now I had to get all our shit together. Everyone had gathered in the room, waiting for me to fill them in.
“As a few of you know, Knight was working on something on the side. That’s kind of blown up in our faces and we need to lock everything down. Blake has been taken into custody by the FBI and Parker is gone. It’s very likely that he’ll get taken into custody also. Becky, I need you to transfer all files that we’ve been working on relating to this over to Cazzo’s house. Once it’s all transferred, cut the connection to his house and wipe our system of all this information. Cazzo, you take all hard copies to your house and lock it up tight. Everyone else, we need to make sure that there is not a single fucking thing the feds can come in here and site us for. I want every weapon secured as it should be. All files need to be locked up. I don’t want a fucking tea cup out of place around here. When the FBI finds out that they don’t have what they’re looking for with Blake, they’ll be back with a search warrant. Let’s not give them a single fucking reason to lock any more of us up. Believe me, they’re going to come at us hard. Let’s get to work.”
Everyone dispersed, hauling ass to make sure the company was in order. Knight walked over to me, waiting for everyone to leave.
“What do you think?”
He shook his head. “I think we need help on this. I have a guy inside the FBI. He helps me out from time to time. I can call him and ask him to help out.”
“And you trust him?”
He shot me a glare. “Do you really think I would trust just anyone?”
“You have to be sure on this. It’s not just you that you’re protecting right now.”
“He’s our best chance at finding out what’s going on inside the FBI. He shouldn’t come here though. I’ll set up a meet, but I think the first thing we need to do is find out what the fuck is in that journal that the FBI is so eager to get their hands on.”
“Agreed. Once we’re all locked up here, we’ll head over to Cazzo’s house.”
“Not everyone. Let’s keep this restricted to just a core group of guys. It’s safer if not everyone is involved. Once we know what’s going on, we can fill everyone in.”
I nodded. “We need to function like normal. If it looks like we’re trying to hide something, they’ll come at us harder. We continue with jobs and pretend it’s just another day at the office.”
“Sounds good.”
“What about the wives?”
He shook his head. “We have to go on as normal. It’ll look too suspicious if the FBI is watching.”
“You’re sure about that? What if the feds start approaching them? What if one of them is brought in for questioning?”
His eyes darkened and his fists clenched. “They won’t know anything. We’ll just have to deal with it for now.”
I hoped he was right on that. “If you’re sure you want to risk the wrath of our wives,” I said hesitantly.
“Look, the feds are gonna come at us first with a search warrant. There’s no point in even questioning anyone until they’ve searched for that journal.”
“God, I hope you’re right. I’m not really interested in seeing what happens if Maggie gets dragged in.”
Knight quirked his head to the side and in a rare instance, he fucking smiled. “I don’t know, that could be interesting.”
Chapter Thirty-Three
Parker
I could hear the faint sound of chopper blades, but I couldn’t see where they were coming from. I drove faster, hoping that I could get to my destination before I was caught. Knight had set me all up, but I still needed to find out why she fucking did this to me. Then I would haul ass out of the safe house and get to Colorado to meet up with Blake.
I pulled down the long drive and squealed to a stop. There was a guard outside the door that nodded to me. Knight must have let him know that I was coming. I shoved the door open and stormed through the house looking for Kiera.
“Kiera!”
I checked the kitchen and the bedroom, but she wasn’t there. I shoved open another door, but she wasn’t there either.
“Parker?”
I spun around and there she was, looking relaxed and comfy in her new little house. It pissed me off so much. Here she was, happy as can be in her little hideaway while I was out there fighting for everything I could get. All the anger that I felt since Knight had filled me in came pouring out of me.
“So, you remember me.”
She looked like I struck her and took a step back, like I would actually fucking hurt her. “Parker-”
“Why did you do it, Kiera? Why the fuck would you set me up like that?”
“I didn’t-”
“Bullshit! Don’t give me that crap. For three fucking years, I believed that you actually thought that I raped you. I felt sorry for you, thinking that you were suffering from PTSD from being raped, but all this time, you were just ashamed, right?”
“I didn’t have a choice,” she said, her voice wobbling.
“You always have a choice when it comes to doing what’s right. You could have chosen not to fuck me over, but you went against me, and I want to know why.”
“You don’t understand. He would have ruined me.”
“Like you ruined me? I can’t get a fucking job, Kiera. Everyone looks at me like I’m a piece of shit. I don’t have my benefits. My name is shit and I’ve lost the respect of the
